Oracle Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Oracle
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +25 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 19 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 18.10% 3.09% 2.60%
As % of the Vendors category 36.54% 14.71% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £521 £503 £569
25th Percentile £525 £506 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £615
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -14.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £659
90th Percentile £590 £543 £674
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £450 £638
% change year-on-year +5.56% -29.41% +21.43%

All Vendors
Cheltenham

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 52 34 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 49.52% 20.99% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 22
10th Percentile £371 £443 £301
25th Percentile £463 £513 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £613
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -8.57% -2.00%
75th Percentile £640 £688 £728
90th Percentile £700 £828 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £475 £575
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +13.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £38.65
25th Percentile £88.75 - £42.63
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £49.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.16%
75th Percentile £96.25 - £55.88
90th Percentile - - £59.85
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -2.86% +43.68% -18.80%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Oracle job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Oracle

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Oracle

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) npm
2 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) RDBMS
1 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (21.05%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
1 8 (42.11%) Maven
General
1 15 (78.95%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (57.89%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Analyst
1 11 (57.89%) Data Analyst
2 8 (42.11%) Support Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Applications Support
3 6 (31.58%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Onboarding
2 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) CentOS
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Data Centre Operations
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (31.58%) Microservices
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.53%) DataOps
5 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
5 2 (10.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) DV Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Ansible
1 8 (42.11%) Grafana
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform